Solar cycles are predictable among differing timescales but number of sunspots in the shorter 9 — 11 year cycle is difficult, as NASA got
their first predictions of cycle 24 spectacularly wrong and had to reassess several times.
Meanwhile Stefan and Boltzmann discovered the sigma - T ** 4 law, and then Arrhenius put it together into
the first predictions of warming.
More that a hundred years have passed since
the first predictions of global warming and other climate changes caused by increasing concentrations of CO 2.
We also analyze
our first predictions of the season and compare them with the forum polls, featuring Gone Girl, Big Eyes, Interstellar and A Most Violent Year.
The first predictions of the top 6 categories from the NEW Gold Rush Gang are here and right now Paramount Pictures» Silence tops the pack in Best Picture, Best Director and Best Supporting Actor (Liam Neeson) while Sundance hit Manchester by the Sea scores two # 1s, Best Actor (Casey Affleck) and Best Supporting Actress (Michelle Williams).
The existence of extremely massive black holes was one of
the first predictions of Einstein's theory.
To help explain the phenomenon, Yazdani consulted B. Andrei Bernevig, associate professor of physics at Princeton, who has expertise in the theory of topological materials and whose group was involved in
the first predictions of Weyl semi-metals in a 2015 paper published in Physical Review X.
In fact, those who understand it will see the event in its present context immediately following
the first prediction of the passion and Peter's confession of that which never comes by observation of flesh and blood but only by revelation (16:17).
Just as Peter missed the point of
the first prediction of suffering and death, so James and John here completely misunderstand the nature of the of an earthly nature of the kingdom Jesus has been talking about.
2014 was the hottest year on record and last week,
the first prediction of 2015 came out — it wasn't good news.
Not exact matches
First, he hyped up
prediction market Stox in July — posting a photo
of himself on a private jet next to literal piles on money, promising «I'm gonna make a $ hit t $ n
of money on August 2nd on the Stox.com ICO.»
First - class tickets are easily three or four times the price
of economy - class tickets, according to data from Hopper, and airfare
prediction app.
One measure would be to compare current estimates to the
predictions of first - year sales that were made in the fall
of 2014, when the device was unveiled.
China's
first space station, called Tiangong - 1 or «Heavenly Palace,» will soon break up over Earth into a fiery rain
of space — and the
predictions for when it's coming down are getting more exact.
After all, the stock — despite the recent selloff driven by disappointing sales
of the new iPhone 8 — has surged 33 % this year, adding $ 200 billion in value, and prompting
predictions that the Colossus
of Cupertino will soon boast the world's
first $ 1 trillion market cap.
All this to achieve their namesake, a passionate play off a recent
prediction that in 2040, non-whites will form the majority
of the American population for the
first time ever.
In the spring
of 2016, Foursquare CEO Jeff Glueck went on CNBC to make a bold
prediction: Chipotle comparable sales would fall by 29 percent in its
first quarter.
As we stated
first thing this morning, far from widespread
predictions and expectations
of a stock market apocalypse, what a Trump victory really means is strength for both the economy, and the stock market.
After successfully placing the highest bid on the
first batch
of Bitcoins seized and sold by the FBI during the shutdown
of Silk Road, Tim Draper has become synonymous with price
predictions and Draper University, a startup accelerator.
The Federal Reserve and many Wall Street economists have been saying for months that an economic slowdown in the
first part
of the year would soon give way to faster growth, but their
predictions have begun to sound hollow in the face
of ever more dour economic news.
Disney's
first - quarter revenue improved 9 % from the same period last year, to $ 13.4 billion, blowing past analysts»
prediction of $ 12.9 billion.
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prediction is the
first in a long line
of predictive features we have planned to help customers save time and money.»
Now that we are more than halfway through the year, we thought it would be interesting to see how those
predictions fared against the investment results from the
first half
of the year.
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first year
of operations despite
predictions that it would only just break even.
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In the
first half
of 2015 we've seen many
of our smart beta
predictions fulfilled.
Let's begin by meditating upon what might be called the
first of the secular ironies now evident: Humanae Vitae's specific
predictions about what the world would look like if artificial contraception became widespread.
If you predicted the winner
of the Super Bowl for the next 20 years, and you were wrong the
first 5 years, don't be offended if people don't put much stock in the remaining 15
predictions.
Enthusiasm for the
first pope picked from Latin America has prompted
predictions of a «Francis effect» revival among the region's Roman Catholics.
There are three «
predictions of the Passion», as they are called, in each
of the
first three Gospels («passion» in the ancient sense
of «martyrdom», meaning here the suffering and crucifixion
of Jesus — as in the medieval «Passion plays»).
Millennialism began in the very
first generation
of the church, and there has scarcely been a period
of history since which has not witnessed
predictions of its own imminent end.
That at least the war
of Psalm 83 must occur
first may be in 2018 from Tisha B'Av July 22, 2018 to Rosh ha Shanah September 11, 2018 before such a Rapture can occur, you are a little off in your
predictions and HE said no one would know.
HelpfulNot Helpful 2 Peter 3:2 - 3 ESV / 10 helpful votes That you should remember the
predictions of the holy prophets and the commandment
of the Lord and Savior through your apostles, knowing this
first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires.
The editor organized the
first main section
of Q around a cluster
of predictions from Isaiah to the effect that the Coming One will heal many sicknesses and evangelize the poor.
In Matthew, Mark and Luke, Peter's answer to Jesus» question is followed by the
first of Jesus»
predictions of his suffering and death.
Thus the Inconsistency between Bohr's quantum theory and the assumptions
of classical physics worried some physicists very much when it was
first proposed, whereas others thought this inconsistency
of little importance compared to the accuracy
of the
predictions which it yielded.
First, the desire to show that in the early life
of the Messiah there are exact fulfillments
of Old Testament
predictions; second, the defense
of the messiah ship
of Jesus against Jewish slanders that he was illegitimate and the son
of an immoral woman.
At
first blush, he's looking to find his spiritual center, but then you see that little smile and Coke ad, and the implication is that he's found yet another healing moment to spin an ad campaign out
of (kudos to Vox's Todd VanDerWerff, whose
prediction was on the money.)
It is significant that the earliest Gospel, Mark, uses the term «after three days» consistently in the
prediction passages, but where these are quoted in Matthew or Luke the phrase has been changed to «on the third day».23 The change can be explained by saying that between the writing
of the
first and the later Gospels the story
of the empty tomb had become more widely known, and the phrase «after three days», as a dating
of the resurrection event, fell out
of use.
Two comments on the previous bit
of illogical drivel...
first of all,
prediction implies chance.
Oedipus continued on his journey without suspecting that the
first half
of the oracle's
prediction had been fulfilled.
In 3:165 and 2:233 f Hesse cites Putnam's example
of the
prediction of the explosion
of the
first atomic bomb.
(In 2:242 f she discusses the
prediction of the explosion
of the
first atomic bomb in terms
of her theory.)
First of all, let us note that even many very conservative Christians recognize that alongside the
predictions of a cataclysmic future in biblical eschatology, there is a strong element
of what has been called, in C. H. Dodd's classic phrase, «realized eschatology.»
Probably the
first thing we should do is keep our common sense and recall that most
predictions of doomsday turn out to be nonsense.
In all three
of the
predictions in Mark and Luke, and all but the
first in Matthew, the one who is to suffer is called the Son
of man.
This is the
first of three
predictions of Jesus» death and resurrection (Mk 8:31; 9:31; 10:33 - 34 and parallels).
All three Gospels give here the second
of Jesus» three recorded
predictions of his death and resurrection, the
first having been spoken at Caesarea Philippi (Mk 9:31 - 32; Mt 17:22 - 23; Lk 9:44 - 45; cf. Mk 8:31 and parallels).
In his
first radio broadcast since his doomsday
prediction failed to pan out in a spectacularly public fashion, the California preacher insisted his was an error
of interpretation, not fact.
And even for me as an individual, is it not important to note that this is by no means the
first time I've been a church - goer, that I had been recently finding a kind
of joy (one might call it an experience
of the sacred) reading T. S. Eliot, that my commitment to the new church is by no means total (in the sense
of excluding work or family or friends), and that if statistical
predictions work in my case I will probably have moved on to some other kind
of commitment in five or ten years.